India has two sides, the urban and developed and the rural and underdeveloped, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said here today.
"There exists two Indias — one in towns and cities with highrise buildings, computers, cars and modern gadgets, and the other in rural areas, still underdeveloped for lack of facilities and opportunities," Gandhi told a rally to thank the people for voting back the Congress to power in the state of Arunachal Pradesh.
"I took a British minister to the villages some time back to show him the strength of the people of rural India, as they were making use of the opportunities offered to them by the NREGA and the waiving of loans," he said.
"But I was criticised by the BJP, which alleged that I was showing the poverty of the country to a minister from a foreign country," he said.
"NREGA guarantees 100 days jobs to the poor, and waiving of farmers' loans totalling Rs60,000 crore were meant to help the people of the other India to come up, he said.
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